Russell Cannon interviewed by Ragbir Bhathal for the Australian astronomers oral history project [sound recording]
- Bib ID:
- 2082069
- Format:
- Audio
- Author:
- Cannon, R. D. (Russell David), interviewee
- Access Conditions:
- Written permission required for research, personal copies and public use during the lifetime of the interviewee.
- Description:
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- 1995 Feb. 1
- 3 sound tape reels (ca. 159 min.) : 7 1/2 ips., 2 track stereo ; 10 in.
- Series:
- Australian astronomers oral history project.
- Summary:
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Dr Cannon, Director, Anglo-Australian Observatory, talks of his early life in Liverpool, England; his religious beliefs; his schooling; his undergraduate course at Cambridge University; his PhD on star clusters; working on globular clusters, red giants and quasars at Mt Stromlo; his first publication; collaboration; forming his network of colleagues; his lineage to great names in astronomy; working with Woolley; running the UK Schmidt telescope in Coonabarabran; globular clusters; formation of the Milky Way; the age of globular clusters; discovery of a new dwarf elliptical galaxay in Corona; identification of the optically violently variable class of quasars; kinematics in the Small Magellanic Cloud; explosion of Supernova 1987A; importance of the SN1987A database; design, control and programs of the Anglo-Australian Observatory; building new instruments; design features of the UK Schmidt telescope at Siding Spring; CCDs; future plans for the A-A Observatory; the European Southern Observatory; astronomy in Australia; his membership of scientific societies; the importance of Antarctica; Indian Inter-University Centre for Astronomy and Astrophysics; Asian astronomy; popularising astronomy; crisis in science; SETI; Australia as the "Lucky country"; his opinions on social issues.
- Notes:
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- Recorded at the University of Western Sydney.
- Digital master available National Library of Australia;
- Index/Finding Aid Note:
- Timed summary andn uncorrected transcript (typescript, 72 leaves) available.
- Subject:
- Other authors/contributors:
- Bhathal, Ragbir (Ragbir Singh), interviewer
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